Open Thread Wednesday 3/16/11

Can someone describe the supposed fake signs? The real ones actually look kind of fake. They’re small, different colors for different days, and just say “No Parking Thursday” on them. They aren’t the same as the movie/TV ones.

I also don’t like the original poster’s tone but bigots are allowed to have their opinions too and the thought of removing his post because most people disagree with it quite frankly disgusts me more. This is America 2011 and we have a right to even stupid opinions.

PS – I agree with WilltownCop too. No one should be censored, but if some house rules are in place it might help stamp out some of the uglier posts that have turned up here.

Aagin, we need to be very very careful to depict anyone as acting with malace. Also, people who seek to limit speech to insure rights
always end up with neither rights or the right to speek. Look at
Canada. They have very harsh controls on speech. Has the
intergroup hostilities declined in Canada? Trust me, one look at
the press up there or a talk with a cabbie and you’d know the
absoulte failure of speech controls. Dont start thinking in the direction of restraint my fellow Americans or you will find yourselves without either precious constitutional riight the right to speek freely and the right of association.

Wow – what a lot of moaning whingers my neighbours are being today!

soulman, nothing vague about it. And I’ll keep calling ’em as I see ’em.

@Jeffrey J Smith

Out of curiosity, to where are you trying to hyperlink your screen name to? It just says “building”

We are considering several options, or no actions

Lauren,
Check out the 311 website regarding “barking dogs”.
This is what I found.

Noise from Barking Dog

The City accepts complaints about dogs that bark too much and too loudly.

Complaints about are first addressed by letter, sent to the owner of the dog. The letter includes information about the New York City Noise Code and includes literature about how to curb the dog’s barking. The City will mail the letter to the owner within seven days of receiving the complaint. The letter to the owner will not include information about the person who made the complaint.

Depending on the number of complaints that people make about the dog, the City will determine whether an inspection is necessary.

HAPPY ST. PATRICK’S DAY!!! EVERYBODY TAKE A BIG BREATH AND BE THANKFUL IT’S A BEAUTIFUL DAY!!!

Crocus show their tops
Anticipating Spring’s joy
Without religion.

@Alana, re: threading. I need to have my eyebrows waxed or threaded by someone who speaks/understands English. The person I used to go to at another salon left, and since then my eyebrows have been mangled because of the language barrier.

Do the employees of the threading salon speak and understand English well?

And what is the cost of threading?

(And please, no flames–I am not anti-anyone–I just need to have my requests understood.)

@Jewess etc

How blandly you write that it was the family of the bat mitzvah girl, and not the synagogue, that put up the fake no-parking signs two weeks ago. Does that fact, in your view, exonerate the synagogue where the bat mitzvah was held and for which, presumably, it received a fee from the family for using its premises? And what does it say about the truthfulness and neighborliness of the synagogue members that they didn’t chastise the family for doing something so underhanded. It’s outrageous that this one family should have converted so much public property to their private use.

Not one person here has commented on the conduct that provoked my remarks but only on the anti-Semitic bias that allegedly prompted them. At the risk of comparing small things to great, I must say that all this reminds me of how any criticism of Israeli policy is greeted in this country. Almost always the motivations of the critic are impugned – anti-Semitic naturally – but the substance of his remarks is ignored.

It’s extraordinary how may people in this thread have called for my censorship.

@Topham Beauclerk: If you want people to pay attention to the substance of the issue, instead of your own motivations, then write better.

Me, I think you have a whiff of troll about you.

@harumph:

I know the synagogue did nothing because the fake no-parking signs were suffered to remain up the whole day. And since the synagogue is located on the very same block where the fake no-parking signs were posted, one can hardly claim that the synagogue members didn’t see them. Police its members?; certainly not but this is different, n’est ce pas? The members could see the fake signs but chose to do nothing. I forbear to speculate why the synagogue members permitted this fraud to go on.

@david on middagh

Define troll. Pot and kettle, perhaps?

Tony, I mean that TB complained about people jumping down his throat instead of addressing the street-blocking issue. Well, what did he expect? He could have brought up the issue without dilating on cultural/religious motivations. But I think he likes the attention. Which answers his own question, above.

Well, D on M, if you go back and look at my original comment, which started all of this nonsense, you will see that my remarks were critical but measured and not in the least bit incendiary. And yet people still found it to be, at best, “in poor taste,” or, at worst, “anti-semitic.” Not only was parking cut off all day (and not just from 11-4, as Jewess said), but the street was blocked off too, barricades and all, clogging up traffic on Henry St., all so a few kids could play in the street. This seemed excessive to me. That’s all I was saying.